Home Textiles Today - March 5, 2001

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• Business Today
• Dollar General posts 4Q earnings decline
• Gottschalks gets 4Q boost from Lamonts
• New home sales fall 10% in January
• Index hits five-year low as downturn continues
• HomeBase DIY exit nets $60M loss
• Hancock profits healthy in 4Q
• TJX 4Q profits slip as sales rise

• Fabrics Today
• Swatches
• Donghia launches new Creations line
• Fabric Fair Slated
• Britex differentiates with service, selection
• Sourcing show hits Vegas
• Lanscot-Arlen expands

• Feature
• POV retailers carve niche with quality mix

• News
• LNT plots growth for stores, PL
• Karastan unveils Sunwash ad blitz
• Nicole Miller hits home
• HD Window adds to Vignette line
• May chairman Loeb retires
• Federated 4Q impacted by Fingerhut, Sterns
• WestPoint freshens moderate price towels
• cmi develops new logo to reflect styling
• Waverly hits Target stores
• New pres. at Federated
• Disney's no small world for WPS
• Kathy Ireland, Shaw covering more ground
• Dan River adds Thomas
• Shaw mulls Indian imports
• WestPoint to shutter Whitmire, SC, facility
• Dellinger resigns from Davidson Cotton
• Bear Stearns 7th annual Retail and Apparel Confere
• Ames gains an edge with smaller stores
• Great Indoors keys Sears transition
• Special Report:Solid Color
• Draperies - Chintz
• Kitchen Textiles
• Draperies-Chintz - Mass Market
• Towels - Better Market
• Decorative Fabrics
• Draperies
• Blankets
• Table Linen
• Decorative Pillows
• Comforters
• Sheets
• Duvet covers
• Rollin' the dye-color starts to cook
• Towels - Mass Market
• Sheets - Mass Market

• Opinion Today
• Setting a new standard
• A new brand of hospitality

• People Today
• M & B Window changes to Alta
• Dollar General taps three to new positions
• Foster joins Pamida
• Shaw exec leaves for 828 Int'l.
• Duncan new Fred Meyer president